“Women are at least passively involved in the act of murder, because they’re hiring an assassin to do away with another human being.” “There is no difference in killing the fetus in a mother’s womb or killing a person after birth.” These are statements made by two men in two different countries where abortion is legal. http://blogs.aljazeera.com/blog/americas/how-us-abortion-war-fares-globally
Honduras has become the newest front in the US’ war on drugs. The Obama administration has provided financial support for the police and the military there in spite of their implication in corruption and political violence. Dissidents, human rights workers and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have all been killed at alarming rates. American involvement in the Central American country is nothing new. In the 1980s, Read More ...
Naomi Wolf is a leading feminist and the best-selling author of number of books, including The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood. Zeina Awad spoke to the author in New York about her views on abortion. She considers herself “pro-choice, but with many caveats”.
It was a long and bitter race that lasted months and cost at least $2.5bn. In this episode, Zeina Awad and the Fault Lines team go behind the scenes to show how the media spin, campaign ads, corporate dollars, and the power of swing state voters all came together in the 2012 US election. We ask whether voters were presented with a real choice between the candidates, and show how Read More ...
It was become one of the most vicious, important and divisive issues in the 2012 US presidential election. Since it was legalised in 1973, abortion has polarised the US. The battle was been taken to a whole new level over the last few years, with an unprecedented number of laws have been passed in 2011, all aimed at restricting abortion or reproductive rights. Zeina Awad and the Fault Lines team Read More ...
Honduras has the highest rate of homicide in the world, according to the United Nations. One persons dies every 74 minutes in the small Central American country. Citizens have taken to arming themselves in self-defense, as some blame the growing number of criminals being deported from the United States. Al Jazeera’s Zeina Awad reports from Tegucigalpa.
London, UK - Our job as journalists carries with it an inherent risk that affects us all,irrespective of our gender or ethnic background, because we go to places and events that people are trying to get away from : disaster zones, violent confrontations, and unrest. read more
Democracy. That buzzword we hear over and over again coming from powerful quarters in the US to help explain interventions across the globe, from Iraq to Central America. read more
“Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic – the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. read more
Two award-winning films – one from Guatemala, the other from Israel – are currently making the film festival ro unds. read more
Zeina Awad is a correspondent for Fault Lines, Al Jazeera English’s award-winning documentary series about the US and the Americas. Her investigation into U.S. pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials in India was a finalist at the 2011 NIHCM Award for excellence in health care broadcast journalism. She’s also reported on the 2009 Gaza War for which AJE earned an International Emmy Award nomination in the News category.
Zeina has covered the Middle East, Africa, the US, and
